1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job
Chapter 20
Cross-references for Job 20
- 20:1 – Job 2:11, Job 11:1, Job 42:9
- 20:2 – Psalms 31:22, Proverbs 14:29, Job 4:2
- 20:3 – Job 33:3, Job 19:3, Job 19:29
- 20:4 – Genesis 1:28, Genesis 9:1–3, Job 8:8–9
- 20:5 – Psalms 37:35–36, Job 18:5–6, Job 5:3
- 20:6 – Isaiah 14:13–14, Obadiah 1:3–4, Genesis 11:4
- 20:7 – 1 Kings 14:10, 2 Kings 9:37, Job 4:20
- 20:8 – Psalms 90:5, Psalms 73:20, Job 18:18
- 20:9 – Job 7:8, Job 7:10, Job 8:18
- 20:10 – Job 20:18, Job 27:16–17, Luke 19:8
- 20:11 – Job 13:26, Job 21:26, Psalms 25:7
- 20:12 – Job 15:16, Psalms 10:7, Ecclesiastes 11:9
- 20:13 – Numbers 11:18–20, Matthew 5:29–30, Mark 9:43–49
- 20:14 – Romans 3:13, Deuteronomy 32:24, 2 Samuel 11:2–5
- 20:15 – Proverbs 23:8, Matthew 27:3–4
- 20:16 – Acts 28:3–6, Romans 3:13, Deuteronomy 32:24
- 20:17 – Deuteronomy 32:13–14, Job 29:6, Luke 16:24
- 20:18 – Job 20:10, Job 20:15, Proverbs 1:12
- 20:19 – Job 35:9, Proverbs 14:31, Proverbs 22:22–23
- 20:20 – Ecclesiastes 5:13–14, Isaiah 57:20–21
- 20:21 – Job 15:29, Job 18:19, Jeremiah 17:11
- 20:22 – Job 15:29, Revelation 18:7, 2 Kings 24:2
- 20:23 – Psalms 78:30–31, Numbers 11:33, Genesis 19:24
- 20:24 – Isaiah 24:18, Amos 5:19, 2 Samuel 22:35
- 20:25 – Job 16:13, Job 18:11, Deuteronomy 32:41
- 20:26 – Psalms 21:9, Psalms 120:4, Job 18:5–6
- 20:27 – Job 16:18, Isaiah 26:21, Luke 12:2–3
- 20:28 – Job 27:14–19, Zephaniah 1:18, James 5:1–3
- 20:29 – Job 27:13, Job 31:2–3, Job 18:21
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